This was cute, but it in no way represents real world investing. Especially at the level we are talking about.

You think guys like Bill Gates are investing in 50/50 situations?


I get it, you tried to make it simple. But you can't come up with a simple exercise to put any of us in the shoes of how Bill Gates will decide to invest.

A more realistic exercise/question would be "Do you think an ultra-billionare would walk away from investment that previously would return 80 million per year, but now only returns 40?"...or something.

I hope you're just being devils advocate here.


But at the end of the day, even if we accept the idea that investment would go down...the argument would be 1) the increased government spending would lead to other benefits/growth and 2) the societal gains are more important and 3) your argument sort of assumes that Bill is investing all of his wealth into booming businesses today AND that a different investor wouldn't step up etc etc.


And again, the natural progression of the stance you are taking are things like privatize social security, continuing to worship investors, etc.